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There is a huge variation in Arabic dialects, from what I've been told (by Arab speakers). North African very different from Egyptian, different from Saudi.

Not necessarily even mutually intelligible.

Though Egyptian seems to be the most well understood from what I've been told. . . they have a lot of TV shows that are popular elsewhere.

On the real tho, what is your problem? Anti-yoruba/awolowo signature, misspelling the name of our ethnic group, etc. It isn't by force you have to post here, is it? We don't have to interact. . . if you don't like Yoruba, fine and well. But probably makes sense to then ignore Yoruba threads, right? If you dislike something/someone, probably not a good idea to be heavily involved with those who like that thing/someone.

When did Buhari get the time to learn Arabic? He might have memorized some stuff from the koran in Arabic, but I doubt this implies he actually speaks the language.

If he speaks it. . . then which dialect does he speak?

It isn't an ordinary 's' in "Osun." It has that mark (diacritical?) under it.

Oshun makes sense, Osun with the mark under the 's' makes sense, Osun by itself (the way we write it online) does not. Least, this is my understanding (correct me if wrong.)

^-- Relax with the misspelling of Yoruba. No need for that, not in this thread. And I guess I don't need to say anything about the deportation comments. . .

Jenifa is 100% correct with her extreme example.

No sane country equates what the majority wants with the correct course of action. Certainly that is not the way the US works. Otherwise there would still be Jim Crow laws. . .

Sometimes a majority of people want what is evil, wrong, unjustifiable or silly.

Good that the kids survived, at least.

[quote="Beaf"]Youre just being your foolish ethnically bigoted self. Shame on you.
Only a fool thinks SNG saved Jonathan, rather everyone pitched in to save NIGERIA, but you're too shallow to see that. All you can see are personalities and their ethnicities. Youre a bigot, dude and it really blurs your vision.

The person most Nigerians remember from the crisis period is Wole Soyinka, not the two faced Bakare who was only saw another opportunity to feather his cap. I was going to join SNG during that crisis, but decided I didn't like what I saw and I am vindicated.

Bakare is a false prophet and an opportunist.[/quote]Me an ethnic bigot? You've no clue what you are talking about.

And if being two-faced is the criterion for unworthiness. . . then why have you chosen GEJ as your master?

Is anyone more mercurial than him?

seanet02:
Cotonou though is not a YORUBA town but has lots of YORUBA dwellers, the towns in benin that are YORUBA towns are many prominent among them is Ajase-Ipo And Ketu, the Alaketu of Ketu Visited Nigeria last year, OGUN state precisely and spoke YORUBA fluently. Benin President is also A YORUBA man.

I see. Not sure why I thought it was.

Sagamite:
It is unreasonable for majority to determine what is right or wrong? 

So who else should decide it?

That is a shocking argument.

So who is to decide that my wankstar example is wrong for having is glory in public?

If majority cannot determine what is wrong how do we create laws?

As per video, you want me to believe something because someone else said so? I should not ask for solid evidence on something that should be easy to get? We live in a world where I have seen fantastic and amazing filming of animal life in impossible places but yet no one (in an industry that is HEAVILY pro-gay) has been able to film gay animals from the millions of specie of animals on Earth and you expect me to accept? Especially when the main authors of some of the fictional gay animal reports are known to be deviants themselves (maybe the others are closet gays).

I am sorry, but "my" University of Bristol taught me better.

In short, yes. Rightness/wrongness is not equivalent to what the majority thinks.

Regarding video, peer-reviewed scientific research is not enough? Consider this journal publication, for example:

http://www.seduquere.com/sgcArchivos/servicios/serviciodeinformacioneducativa/novedad/conductamismosexo.pdf

And the article describing it:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616122106.htm

Anyway, peer-reviewed research is good enough to convince me, for the most part.

Angelique Kidjo's mom is Yoruba, according to Wikipedia. Dad is Fon.

From Cotonou, which is a Yoruba city anyway. . . ? So not surprising she speaks Yoruba.

I don't listen to her music at all. Which song are you referring to?

Understand almost all of your post, aside from this part:

fstranger1:
He was born in Togo to Yoruba parents from Osun state. That doesnt mean the parents are from Osun State, and that doesnt make him Yoruba

What do you mean, that doesn't make him Yoruba?

@seanet02: Preciate it man!

oyb:
as an american, you are on a slippery slope,

the indigenes of america are the red indians

everyone else is just an usurper

some people saw iraq type parallels in avatar - all i saw was dances with wolves to the nth power, contempt for the indigenes.

just passing by

The Indians are almost no more. Genocided away. If you can successfully push another ethnic group out of their land and take it for your own, that is another path.

Of course, easier said than done.

^-- I googled the term "mahinmi -ian -nba -mavericks -spurs -mavs", saw lots of Yoruba folk with Mahinmi in their name.

Adebayor is from Nigeria I thought, just put in an 'r' for no good reason

OAM4J:
Majority may not always determine what is right or wrong, but they determine what should be acceptable in a community since the practice of democracy.

I don't think democracy quite means "majority can do whatever the F they like." At least, the way it is practiced in the west. Need to avoid mob rule, tyranny of the majority (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority).

There is this guy who plays for the Dallas Mavericks named Ian Mahinmi from France, whose dad is from the Benin Republic.

Anyone know Yoruba well enough to know what his last name means/refers to?


(yes, I know this isn't appropriate for the politics section, but I figured this board gets the most traffic)

[quote="SEFAGO"]PS: Eku_bear do you code or program? I kind of have issues with a script I am writing (And I should have finished writing since last week Friday lol). Though its probably in a language you might not be used to.[/quote]Yes, I do. What language is it in? I realize I might be too late to help though. . .

Quote from: eku_bear on February 01, 2011, 06:04 PM
Ahah, so that is my entire point. "Unnatural and disgusting" does not imply "should be banned", or is an "ideal candidate for banning."

You've formed a specific subjective opinion. Which you are certainly entitled to. But it doesn't follow that what you or even a majority of people find disgusting should be banned.

Entitled to and is a whole lot stronger than the steeewpid arguments saying gays are normal and be accepted.

Quote from: eku_bear on February 01, 2011, 06:04 PM
Err, go bring your white girlfriend around most places in the south. Make out with her in public. See how people react.

Even better, do this in certain black communities anywhere in the US, see how people react 

What is the population of those that will be disgusted. Do loud minorities become a majority?

Even if they were majority, it does not make it unnatural.

Quote from: eku_bear on February 01, 2011, 06:04 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

I said show me a video. You showed me wiki?

Your position is unreasonable. When did a majority become what determines right or wrong?

And what do you need a video for? The studies references in that article aren't suffucient? Do you actually need some animal gay p0rn to be convinced? 


(Sorry for taking forever to respond, had some school stuff I was preparing for)

Knight1:
whats naija's biz with their sales doubling?
let jobs double and then we'll rejoice with them.

Sales and jobs are intimately tied together. Jobs cannot go up w/o sales also increasing.

Wow.

So the UK is actually trying to help us fight corruption and bring a politician who stole $100s of millions from his own people to justice.

Yet the FG was trying to let the guy go scot free?

This PDP. . .

Actually, looks like this factory is in Ogun:

Mr. Baum, at the inauguration of a new factory by Nestle Nigeria in Ogun State on Thursday, said the partnership will be concluded during the planned visit of Odein Ajumogobia, the foreign affairs minister, to Berne on February 14.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/Markets/5672350-146/story.csp

Interesting.

Abeg, let Lagos (and the engineers they hired to do feasibility for the project) worry about this issue. No need to borrow worry.

Up D'Banj.

Up the girls in that video too. Hot damn!

What is so difficult to understand here?

If your ancestors lived in a land (say) 100 or 200 years ago, then they are indigenous to that land, and so are you.

Otherwise, you are not. But it is certainly possible for the existing indigenes to accept you as one of them with less stringent requirements. They are under no obligation to do this, though.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=598591.msg7665290#msg7665290 date=1296815324]Sai One Nijeria is the only viable option. Left to your own devices, you people in the SS/SE will annihilate each other.[/quote]Latter doesn't justify the former.

I've always been a pro-slavery Yoruba.

Up Slavery!

The father's instinct proved true. But his son's good fortune would often come after the misfortune of others. In 1999, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was elected deputy governor of Bayelsa province in the south — only to become governor when his boss was arrested for embezzlement. This week Jonathan, elected Vice President of Nigeria in 2007, has become acting president after the country's parliament decided his boss, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, was too sick to rule.

Seems very suspicious, no?

Perhaps GEJ is an occultist

Ikengawo:
that was his daughter not his wife (i believe) his daughters are fine beyond fine though
https://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/78171593.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789219B309651A2344B3FAA3DAD340670E3DB4B1DDD046A106E9F86EC69543B5BF562
^this is one of them

She doesn't look human. She looks like an elf or something, with her pointy ears. . .

Still kinda cute though, lol

Goodthief Jonathan!

No wonder his Bayelsa state is so backwards. He stole all the money that was supposed to be used to develop it.